Kitrina Carlson, an assistant professor of biology, has received a research grant from the UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity to evaluate medicinal plant use by the Hmong population in Wisconsin.

Chancellor Charles W. Sorensen joined the campus leaders of UW-Eau Claire, UW-River Falls and Chippewa Valley Technical College in writing and signing a letter to encourage a regional approach to economic development and to market the area as an entire region.